Miscellanies, Volumen2Macmillan, 1863 |
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... Leave such inhuman dreams to monks and faquirs . ' The scientific agriculturist doubted the truth of the dogma more and more as his science revealed to him that the limit of productiveness , even upon old soils , had been nowhere ...
... Leave such inhuman dreams to monks and faquirs . ' The scientific agriculturist doubted the truth of the dogma more and more as his science revealed to him that the limit of productiveness , even upon old soils , had been nowhere ...
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... leaves ; other ants remaining below , receive them , cut them into small pieces , shoulder them , and carry them to their nest . There was a long line of these fellows walking at double - quick pace , each with a great piece of green ...
... leaves ; other ants remaining below , receive them , cut them into small pieces , shoulder them , and carry them to their nest . There was a long line of these fellows walking at double - quick pace , each with a great piece of green ...
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... leaves , an inner horizontal coronet of bright scarlet , forming a cup of fire , in the midst of which sits the flower- clump of little white blossoms , stuffed in a cushion . It ought to be called the phoenix - plant ; it is just like ...
... leaves , an inner horizontal coronet of bright scarlet , forming a cup of fire , in the midst of which sits the flower- clump of little white blossoms , stuffed in a cushion . It ought to be called the phoenix - plant ; it is just like ...
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... leave the national intellect fallow , and thereby give more and more scope to the merely animal passions ; till , frivolous and sensual , the race sinks into the dotage of second child- hood : but not self - contented or at peace . To a ...
... leave the national intellect fallow , and thereby give more and more scope to the merely animal passions ; till , frivolous and sensual , the race sinks into the dotage of second child- hood : but not self - contented or at peace . To a ...
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... leave behind them a fresh race which knows them not , and could win no honour by owning them , and which owes them no more than if it had been produced , as midden - flies were said to be of old , by some spontaneous generation ? It is ...
... leave behind them a fresh race which knows them not , and could win no honour by owning them , and which owes them no more than if it had been produced , as midden - flies were said to be of old , by some spontaneous generation ? It is ...
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